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INDEX Hashish, The Psychology of (Aleister Crow- dey), U, 31 Heart, The Tell-Tale (adaptor, Aleister Crow- dey), VIL, 131 Herb Dangerous, The, I, 233; II, 31; HII, 555 IV, 241 Hermit, The (A/eister Crowley), 1, 137 High History of Good Sir Palamedes, The (Aleister Crowley), IV, Special Supple- ment His Secret Sin (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 49 Horseleech, The Daughter of the (Aleister Crowley), IV, 201 How I Became a Famous Mountaineer (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 275 Hunchback, The Soldier and the (Aleister Crowley), 1, 113 Ida Pendragon, The Ordeal …
1913 · PDF PAGE 277
INDEX Hashish, The Psychology of (Aleister Crow- dey), U, 31 Heart, The Tell-Tale (adaptor, Aleister Crow- dey), VIL, 131 Herb Dangerous, The, I, 233; II, 31; HII, 555 IV, 241 Hermit, The (A/eister Crowley), 1, 137 High History of Good Sir Palamedes, The (Aleister Crowley), IV, Special Supple- ment His Secret Sin (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 49 Horseleech, The Daughter of the (Aleister Crowley), IV, 201 How I Became a Famous Mountaineer (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 275 Hunchback, The Soldier and the (Aleister Crowley), 1, 113 Ida Pendragon, The Ordeal …
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…baby’s thumb. where the The Yankee God frowned also on the plan. We had enough, no more. But I insist, Still thinking I was master of my heart: Saying, ‘ Another month to be a man, Another month to kiss her and be kissed, And then—all time to Magic and to Art!” 1 That is, the imaginary author. 2 Japan. 3 The dollar. THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY. ‘* He has strangled His language in his tears.” K. Hen, VII. My comedy has changed its blithe aspect To bitterest face of tragedy ; she said: ‘*Alas! O soul of mine! I am surely dead, Seeing my life is by a‘ser…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…fearful growth, cherishes it as his one dearest possession, stimulates it by every means in his power. Yet all the time he nurses in his heart an agonizing certainty that this is the way of death. Balloch knew S.R.M.D. well; had known him for years. He hoped to supplant him, and while he feared him with hideous and unmanly fear, hated him with most hellish hatred. He was under no delusion as to the nature of the Path of the Black Lodge. Akbar Pasha, a mere outsider, without a crime on his hands as yet, was a rich and honoured officer in the ser…
1906 · PDF PAGE 43
…t in some wizard wise— The frozen look—the miserable man ! What sudden barb of what detested dart Springs from Apollo’s bowstring to his heart? On sense-dulled ears what Voice rings the decree ? ‘“*For thee the women burn: the wine is cool: For thee the fresco and the fruit—thou fool ! This night thy soul shall be required of thee.!” THE HOUSE. A NIGHTMARE.! Written at Anuradhapura. I must be ready for my friend to-night. So, such pale flowers as winter bears bedeck The old oak walls: the wood-fire’s cheerful light . Flashes upon the fire-dogs …
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…lly by the thousand, because it wasn't quite nice to publish the facts about certain diseases; and precautions against them were called 'heartless experiments.' What Cyril is asking you to do is no more than what your whole heart craves for; only he wants to crown that with a gift to humanity such as has never yet been given. Suppose that you succeed, that you can attract a soul to you who will find a way to abolish poverty, or to cure cancer, or to — oh! surely you glow with vision, a thousand heights of human progress thrusting their sunlit s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
… I would hang. The Christian who can write as Our Cham- pion of Christendom does about his faith is innocuous and pleasant, though in my heart I am compelled to class him with the bloodless desperadoes of the “ Order of the White Rose ” and the “ moutons enragés ” that preach revo- lution in Hyde Park. When he says that he will trace “ the outlines of two vast and mystical phi- losophies which if they were subtly and slowly worked out, etc., etc.,” he is simply thrown away on Nonconformity ; and I trust I do not go too far, as the humblest memb…
1905 · PDF PAGE 91
…s dear to us, and now By double kinship rendered doubly dear. For O! my father comes to gladden me With those enduring kisses that endow Heart, hope, and life with gladness. he soon P? Comes ELEAZAR. Maiden most perfect, daughter of our lord, And ye, most fairest branches of our tree, Maidens of Israel, we await: you here That ye, no other, may go forth to meet The chief victorious. And after you Accept the bargain. Those villains that once cast him out shall forth In sackcloth to his feet, if haply so He spare their vagabond and worthless live…
1905 · PDF PAGE 116
…ist, and foam, then darkness. On my eyes Sits heaviness, the poor worn body lies Devoid of nerve and muscle ; it were death Save for the heart that throbs, the breast that sighs. The brain reels drowsily, the mind is dulled, Deadened and drowned by noises that are lulled By the harsh poison of the hateful breath. All sense and sound and seeming is annulled. 1 Composed while walking home through the starry streets from an evil evening in St. Petersburg, Vv. 1-3 are the feelings, vv. »gy., the refiections thus engendered. Within a body dead a dea…
1905 · PDF PAGE 267
…at of the Christ cruct- Who comes by fred. Save us, Saints, save us! I have looked on God ! TANNHAUSER. Heinrich! my friend, my old true-hearted friend ! Fear not ! Iam not ghost, but living man ! Ah me, ah me, the sorrow of the world ! HEINRICH. Thou, Tannhauser ! what miracle is this? Your body glows—with what unearthly light ? TANNHAUSER, I did not know. Ah! sorrow of this earth ! What tears are falling from the Pleiades ! What sobs tear out Orion’s jewelled heart ! Ah me! As these, as these ! HEINRICH. Speak, speak to me! Else, Iam feared. …
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
…est resurrection of the dead. All petty wishes: at the fountain-head, A dead girl’s whisper --I have stooped and pressed My ear unto her heart---her soul confessed That aone of life her joy relinquished. **T died the moment when yott tore away The biceding veil of my virginity. The pain was sudden --and the joy was long. Persists that triumph, keenly, utterly! Write, then, in thy mysterious book of song: ‘Death chisels marble where fe moulded clay.’ ” AGAINST THE TIDE. TL KILLED my wife—not meaning to, indeed— Yet knew myself the sheer necessit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 39
…valley blending Into one dreamy consciousness of spring ; And all the night and all the world is ending, And all the souls that weep and hearts that sing! So, as the dew hides in the lotus blossom, Sleep draws me with her kiss into her bridal bosom. METEMPSYCHOSIS. Written at Vera Crus. Dim goes the sun down there behind the tall And mighty crest of Orizaba’s snow: Here, gathering at the nightfall, to and fro, Fat vultures, foul and carrion, flap, and call Their ghastly comrades to the doméd wall That crowns the grey cathedral. There they goO— …
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
…, and strive to art ; Accomplish art, and lose the art therein. I sit, a bitter Witenagemot,! The saint, the poet, the man : the lover’s heart Pleads at the bar. How should he hope to win? The saint is silent while the poet strings These futile follies, gives for bread a stone, And the man endures. The lover breaks the lyre. Its death-cry, agony, O agony! rings One name. The lover sits in hell alone Fondling the devil that men call desire. 1 The ancient parliament,of Britain.
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…ehaviour seemed like an open book to her; and the malice of Sister Cybele, her elfin laughter, her satanic sneer, sank into her bleeding heart like acid, burning, fuming. The revel did not diminish; instead, it took novel and more atrocious forms. All that she had ever conceived of sensuality of bestiality, was a thousandfold surpassed. It was an infinite refinement of abomination joined with an exaggeration of grossness that might have turned Georges Sand to stone. The light went out. The thought of flight from that abominable chapel never cam…
1906 · PDF PAGE 78
…flame it resembles, love is, and abides. I see through the moonlight that covers (As a mist on the mountain) your head The flame of your heart as a lover’s Shine out in your face and be shed, A ruby that flashes and hovers and droops and is dead. As a saint in a vision half hidden I see the sweet face in a mist, A nimbus of glory unbidden That shades you or shows as you list. But I, as a bridegroom, unchidden, may kiss—and am kissed. In the light and the manifest splendour That shows you in darkness a bride, Pale blossom of moonlight and slende…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
It was no idle boast of hers that she had destroyed Madame Blavatzsky. Together with another woman, she had wormed her way into the big-hearted Theosophist's confidence, and betrayed her foully at the proper moment. She [294] had tried the same game on another adept; but, when he found her out, and she knew it, he had merely continued his kindnesses. The alternative before her was repentance or brain fever; and she had chosen the latter. Her disbelief in magick had left her with its correlate, a belief in death. It was the one thing she feared,…
1939 · PDF PAGE 56
…tely prove to be irrational. The scientific adventure may have to be given up.' But that is all he knows about science, bless his little heart! We do not give up. 'You lied, d'Ormea, I do not repent!' The results of experiment are still valid for experience, and the fact that the universe turns out on enquiry to be unintelligible only serves to fortify our ingrained conviction that experience itself is reality. 32. We may then ask ourselves whether it is not possible to obtain experience of a higher order, to discover and develop the faculty of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…was clad in spider-silk 5 The lord was spurred and shod. Her breasts gleamed bright and white as milk, Most like the mother of God ; His heart was shrouded, his face was clouded, Earth trembled where he trod. te ‘* By thy raven tresses ; by those caresses We changed these five hours past ; By the full red lips and the broad white brow I charge thee stay ; I am weary now; I would sleep again—at last.” ‘* By thy golden hair ; by the laughter rare Of love’s kiss conquering, By the lips full red and the ivory bed I charge thee come, I am fain inste…
1906 · PDF PAGE 9
…d they all complain They ‘‘ want” thee, oh! so badly. Thou canst not tell the sighs and sobs That for thy presence yearn ; And the great heart of England throbs With joy at thy return. For many a year prolong thy stay By Portland’s shady harbour ; And all expenses we will pay— Especially the barber. A change of work is rest, they say, So honest toil shall rest thee ; No fears that thou must go away Need haunt thee and molest thee. We pray a level-headed set Of fellow men, who know thee, In some small measure grateful yet, May pay thee what is o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
… a rime to trace. What shall they say? For secret we Have held our love, and holy. Splendour Of light, and music of the sea And eyes and heart serene and tender, With kisses mingled utterly. These were our ways. And who shall know? What warrior bard our nuptial glories Shall sing? Historic shall we go Down through our country’s golden stories ? Shall lovers whisper ‘‘ Even so H